The history of the Central Asian states since independence dawned in 1991 centres around the leaders of the five countries. Even casual observers of the region remember how Nursultan Nazarbayev was ...

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his Turkmen counterpart, Serdar Berdimuhamedow, have launched a joint border trade ...

Two men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told how they were tortured, beaten and raped in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of being gay. When the oil- and gas-rich ...